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Book Lovers’ Recommendations

Orchestrated by Louis Muñoz, one of our Reference Librarians, the Book Lovers’ Circle is a great way to find out about new titles, hear others’ recommendations and reviews, and spend a great hour together. Below you can find some recommended titles.

Book Lovers’ Circle: What We’re Reading!

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
The Winners, Fredrik Backman
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1), Naomi Novik
Fury, Salman Rushdie
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor #19), William Kent Krueger
The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
Time Pieces, John Banville
The Huntress, Kate Quinn
The Woman and the Ape, Peter Høeg
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath, Bill Browder
The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar
The Tobacco Wives, Adele Myers
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout *
Better Late Than Never (Library Lover's Mystery #7), Jenn McKinlay
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir, Ashley C. Ford
The Revolutionary, Samuel Adams, Stacy Schiff
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, Nina Totenberg *
The Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews
We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman
Jackie and Me, Louis Bayard
Yellowface, R. F. Kuang
The Years, Annie Ernaux
The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Levee, William Kent Krueger
Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
Art in the Blood (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure #1), Bonnie MacBird
They’re Going to Love You, Meg Howrey
The Half Moon, Mary Beth Keane
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles *
Fire Keeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson *
The Minus-One Club, Kekla Magoon
Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
The Mitford Affair, Marie Benedict
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
The Color Purple, Alice Walker *
The Heavens May Fall (Detective Max Rupert #3), Allen Eskens
Love, Toni Morrison
Her Hidden Genius, Marie Benedict
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
The Girl Behind the Wall, Mandy Robotham
Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson
Have You Seen Luis Velez?, Catherine Ryan Hyde
Iron Lake (Cork O’Connor #1), William Kent Krueger
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, Lisa Unger
Vaccines Change the World, Gillian King-Cargile; illustrations by Sandie Sonke
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Jack Zipes
Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker
Death Comes As the End, Agatha Christie
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
My Government Means to Kill Me, Rasheed Newson
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3), Jane Harper
Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, Tara Schuster
The Last Time I Lied, Riley Sager
Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales #12), Dorothea Benton Frank
The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb *
The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles
Ben, In the World, Doris Lessing
Trust, Hernan Diaz *
Straight Man, Richard Russo
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Daniel Silva
Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
We are the Brennans, Tracey Lange
Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle #4), Agatha Christie
The Sanatorium, Sarah Pearse
We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker *
Heaven’s Keep (Cork O’Connor #9), William Kent Krueger
Up with the Sun, Thomas Mallon
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
Horse, Geraldine Brooks *
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The New Life, Tom Crewe
That Night, Chevy Stevens
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, Ellen Marie Wiseman
Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz
Run Me To Earth, Paul Yoon
Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
The Fortunes of Jaded Women, Carolyn Huynh
West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
City of God, E. L. Doctorow
How To Be Eaten, Maria Adelmann
The Unsinkable Greta James, Jennifer E. Smith

 

Book Lovers’ Circle: Our Favorite Books of 2022

These titles were the ones we most enjoyed in 2022, although they were not all published in 2022.

The Lion in Winter, James Goldman
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley, Shaun David Hutchinson (Illustrations: Christine Larsen)
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World, Giles Milton
The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel
Honor, Thrity Umrigar
The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
Finding Me, Viola Davis
Call Your Daughter Home, Deb Spera
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
The Dove in the Belly, Jim Grimsley
Caves, Nell Cross Beckerman (Illustrations: Kalen Chock)
A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Either/Or, Elif Batuman
The Girls in the Stilt House, Kelly Mustian
When the Sky Glows, Nell Cross Beckerman (Illustrations: David Litchfield )
Book Lovers, Emily Henry
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
Verity, Colleen Hoover
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 – The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari (Illustrations: David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave)
This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
The Guncle, Steven Rowley
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, Eric Cervini
The Children on the Hill, Jennifer McMahon
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
A Rover's Story, Jasmine Warga
Olga Dies Dreaming, Xóchitl González
The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill
Trust, Hernan Diaz
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal
This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger.
House of Sticks, Ly Tran
The Last House on the Street, Diane Chamberlain
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (Illustrations: David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave)
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Trees, Percival Everett
Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak
Oh William! (Amgash #3), Elizabeth Strout
The End of Temperance Dare, Wendy Webb
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams
All the Young Men, Ruth Coker Burks
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles.
All That’s Left in the World, Erik J. Brown
The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Will, Will Smith
 

Archive: Book Lovers Recommendations
You can browse our past Book Lovers Recommendations, which are a list of titles chosen by our Book Lovers Club and annotated by the wonderful and now retired Sue Lipstein.